Steve Gabany: 240 books

In early 1912, characters with names like Dutch, Jimmy the Push, and Scotty the Lamb joined with co-conspirators to steal $25,000 ($590,696.97 in 2014 dollars) during a bank transfer. Amazingly to us today, the transfer was done in the taxicab of Geno Montani. The police, one of them a famous former...

The life of a miner in the Black Hills of South Dakota is not an easy one, and the new mine manager in Spanish Gulch has his work cut out for him. The adventures of a scheming bunch of treasure hunters meets up with a possible romance, if only the true identity of one Bill Fay would be revealed. The...

Tales of Southwestern adventures experienced by gold prospectors, cattle ranchers and others trying to make their way through the 19th century wild west. Stewart Edward White spent time as a cowboy, particularly during cattle round-up times. At night while sitting around the campfire, it was common...

The Blazed Trail is the story of early lumbermen in the northern woods of Michigan. The novel portrays the challenges faced by the workers focusing on one, Harry Thorpe, as he endeavors to be successful though completely unskilled when he enters the woods. The author mixes the splendor of nature with...

The search for gold in Alaska offers opportunities for narrow escapes and exciting adventures no less than the military campaigns which have absorbed a large number of young heroes. Mr. Stratemeyer has managed to impress the necessity for pluck and industry by telling illustration. He has endeavored...

This is a historical fiction novel about the struggle for Texas independence from Mexico. Although complete in itself, this is the first of a line of three books to be known as the Mexican War series. In the form of a boy's story, it describes the conditions in Texas when it was hemmed in between...

The story of three brothers, who are left to shift for themselves upon a lonely ranch home situated in the mountainous region of the State of Idaho, near one of the numerous branches of the Salmon river. This edition of the book contains the five original illustrations, rejuvenated, and five...

Paul Hoffman is a fourteen-year-old young man who sells "prize packages." An elementary gambling game, he sells envelopes that have either candy or money in them; although the odds are poor, the price to play is cheap, and he performs well. Paul is a second generation American, whose late...

Ragged Dick is a homeless fourteen-year-old bootblack, known to be an honest young man. He is generous and industrious, but he is a spendthrift. He is a good-looking boy that appears aristocratic with a frank and open face. Dick must handle con artists, bullies, false accusations of theft, and, most...

Chester Rand does his best to support himself and his widowed mother on three dollars a week. But, he experiences many work problems from a series of abusive employers. Finally, having had some luck as an artist, Chester leaves Pennsylvania and goes to New York City to do art full-time. Horatio...

Our story starts off with a bang: During the deathbed confession of his caregiver, young Ernest learns that he has been cheated of a large inheritance, and circumstances later lead him to confront the deceitful relative. Like many of the wonderful Alger stories, honesty, hard work, education and persistence...

Both his parents having died, Ben Stanton is alone. His uncle has just finished settling Ben's father's estate, and Ben has realized $365.19, a princely sum in the 1880s. He has an offer to work for his uncle in Hampton, his small, East-coast hometown, but he's not interested in working inside. Instead,...

Sam isn't too much of a goody-two-shoes, like some Horatio Alger heroes. He even tries to rob his roommate. Then he moves to Boston for a new start and decides to try to become respectable. He walks up Tremont street in perhaps the 1850s stopping in all the stores looking for work, visits the Parker...

A Chicago newsboy, Luke Walton, sets out to find the man who has defrauded money from Luke's mother. He is blocked at every turn by evil-doers, and it's not at all certain that Luke will succeed! This edition of the book contains the original frontpiece, rejuvenated, and nine additional illustrations...